00:00So one third of our life
00:01or about 9,000 days are spent asleep.
00:04Is it possible that there's more to sleep
00:06than just blackness and then waking up?
00:09And as I get busier,
I'm constantly hunting
00:12for more hours in my day.
00:13More time, even another
minute would be great.
00:16What if I could find some
extra hours during sleep?
00:20Can I fly to random places?
00:22Can I study during dreams?
00:24Can I have epic lifesaver battles
00:26with Darth Vader during dreams?
00:30I tried lucid dreaming for 30 days
00:32and my life has changed forever.
00:37One day I was talking to one of my friends
00:39and she was telling me that
last night she went to Egypt.
00:41And I was like, "No,
you you're right here".
00:42She's like, "No, no, no.
00:43During one of my dreams last night,
00:45I realized when I was dreaming
00:46and I flew in the air and saw the Egypt
00:48and saw the pyramids and all
this kind of cool stuff".
00:50And I was like, "Wait a second.
00:52That sounds really, really cool".
00:54And she went on to tell
me about lucid dreaming.
00:57She said, "All it is,
00:58is you just become aware
while you're dreaming
01:00and then you can do whatever you want.
01:02You can fly away to different places.
01:03You can fly to space.
01:05You can be in movies.
01:06You can have lightsaber
battles with Darth Vader".
01:11Immediately when I went home,
01:12I began Googling what is lucid dreaming?
01:15And the next 30 days would
be all lucid dreaming.
01:18I bought a lucid dreaming book.
01:20I read like 100 Reddit posts
01:22on the sub-Reddit, Lucid Dreaming.
01:23I was really, really hooked.
01:25And this was just on the
first night of discovering it.
01:27I went to bed that night prepared
01:28ready to have a lucid dream,
ready to fly to Egypt.
01:32But when it came down
to it, nothing happened.
01:35It was just a normal
blackness of the night.
01:38I just went to bed and woke
up and nothing happened.
01:41Why can't I have a lucid dream?
01:44I realized that I wasn't
taking this seriously enough.
01:46I had to separate the next
30 days into five day blocks.
01:49And each one of those five day blocks
01:51I would try a new strategy
for lucid dreaming.
01:54And my guide, my Bible
for this 30 day experiment
01:56would be Stephen LaBerge's
01:57"Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming".
02:04According to LaBerge and the internet,
02:06the first phase is to
have a dream journal,
02:08to record your dreams every
night to improve dream recall.
02:11And I remember thinking, wait a second.
02:13I have to wake up in
the middle of the night,
02:15turn on a light and write down
my dreams and a little book.
02:18That sounds like a
nightmare just in itself.
02:21So I have this little journal here.
02:23And every time I wake
up I'm just gonna write
02:25in this journal kind of, what I dreamed.
02:27It's from what I remember dreaming.
02:28And I think what this does is it kind of,
02:30indicates to me and my
subconscious if it's even real.
02:34That lucid dreaming is important.
02:35And if I indicate to myself
that lucid dreaming is important
02:37maybe my mind will pay
more attention to it.
02:39But as I first started down
this lucid dreaming journey
02:42I just found waking up to be tough.
02:43It was hard to wake up
and write down stuff.
02:46I just wanted to go back to sleep.
02:47And a lot of times I did.
02:48It's 4:30 in the morning.
02:53So now, I have to write it down.
02:56The only annoying thing about this is,
02:57you have to wake up when you had a dream
03:00and like turn on a light and
then write it in a journal.
03:04So, that's what I'm gonna do now.
03:07But when I started reading
Steven LaBerge's book,
03:10I was hearing really cool stories
03:12of people doing amazing things
03:13and not just like one off
random silly things like flying.
03:16They were talking to their subconscious
03:18or speaking to dead relatives
03:20or studying with Albert Einstein.
03:22I was like, wait a second.
03:22I gotta stick with this.
03:24And I started to write down
some dreams but it was tough.
03:27I would write down maybe
a sentence, maybe a word
03:30but really nothing else would come.
03:32However, slowly I was starting
to write more and more.
03:34Maybe two sentences, maybe a paragraph,
03:36maybe instead of one dreams, two dreams.
03:39I think it's day four.
03:40I wrote down five dreams this morning.
03:44I used to just not write
down any of my dreams
03:46or not remember any of my dreams
03:48but this morning I've written
down five of my dreams.
03:53We'll see how many I remember?
03:54So like, if there's more
dreams than this though
03:56I don't know if I'll be able
to write all this stuff down.
03:58I don't think there's more
dreams than this though.
04:00Maybe like a couple more.
04:01But in Phase One in these first five days,
04:03I still didn't get a lucid dream.
04:04Nothing magical happened.
04:06I just was starting to
remember more of my dreams.
04:11Phase 2 was Reality Checks.
04:13And after completing my first five days,
04:14I was hungry, ready for the next step.
04:16The idea of buying reality checks is that
04:18if you start to test your reality
04:20during the day, during waking real life,
04:22you'll start to check your
reality during dreams.
04:24And obviously if you check
your reality during dreams,
04:28So you'll indicate to yourself,
okay, this is a dream.
04:30Something is going on.
04:31So, I made the plan to
do the one reality check
04:33where you pinch your nose and
try and breathe through it.
04:35Because in real life,
if you pinch your nose
04:37and try and breathe through it,
04:38right, you can't breathe
through your nose.
04:39But in the dream you still can breathe
04:41through your nose after you pinch it.
04:43That is a reality check, right,
04:44because in reality, it doesn't work
04:46but in the dream world, it works.
04:48And I scheduled myself on my phone
04:49to do a reality check
every hour during the day.
04:52Of course, this was waking
hours and not asleep hours.
04:54And I also wanted to do it
04:55whenever I drank a glass of water.
04:57So, what would happen?
04:57I'd drink the water or
the hour would come by
04:59and I'd look at my hands
to see if they're blurry,
05:01count them and do the reality
check of picturing my nose.
05:04The things I'm gonna
do are count my fingers
05:06like one, two, three, four, five,
05:08and then like inspect them to
see if they're five fingers
05:10see if they're fuzzy and stuff like that.
05:13And I also read that you're meant
05:14to kind of, do another check,
05:16if you're like, okay, what's going on?
05:17And say if this was a dream,
05:19if this really, really was a
dream, what would I be doing?
05:21And I had that in my mind
when I was doing this check.
05:24And it feels really silly at first,
05:26I mean in the hospital, in the streets,
05:28I'll just be looking at my
hands or pinching my nose.
05:30And people are like, what are you doing?
05:32And I felt like a crazy person.
05:33I mean, I was a crazy person.
05:35Case nine, number six,
05:36I've done my reality checks today
05:39but my memory's dream
recalls getting much better.
05:41I'm starting to recall like
bigger, bigger chunks of it.
05:44But then, something crazy happened.
05:47About one or two days into Phase 2.
05:49I had my first elusive
dream and it was amazing.
05:53It happened. I had it.
05:55I had a lucid dream the first time.
05:57I woke up at like 3:00 am
and I was a little bit sleepy
06:01but I stayed up a little
bit and thought like,
06:03okay, when I go back to bed,
06:04I definitely wanna have a lucid dream.
06:05I definitely wanna have a lucid dream.
06:07And the next thing I knew,
I was like in my apartment
06:10but it looked a little bit weird.
06:11I noticed the closet was in a weird place.
06:14And I looked at my hands
and there were five hands.
06:16But I don't know how I knew.
06:18I just knew. I just knew
it was a lucid dream.
06:21And I was like, this is a lucid dream.
06:22This is a lucid dream.
06:23And it was awesome. It was awesome.
06:27And then people around me
were looking at me funny
06:28'cause there were people
suddenly around me,
06:30but I was like, "This is a lucid dream".
06:32And I jumped up in the air
06:33and I stayed up in the
air a little bit longer.
06:35And then I just woke up.
06:36I think I got too excited when I woke up
06:37but it was really cool.
06:39As soon as I had the realization,
it was a lucid dream,
06:42it was a weird like pulse that
went throughout the dream.
06:45And it was like, I don't know
06:46things got more clear, more vivid.
06:49But yeah, it was really, really exciting.
06:54I was stunned by how vivid
and real this dream was.
06:56It felt like real life
but it wasn't real life.
06:59And the only way I realized that
07:01was because of my reality checks.
07:03And now I was hooked.
I wanted to do it more.
07:05I wanted to have more lucid dreams.
07:06I wanted to do cool things.
07:08But I needed to kick it up a notch.
07:09I needed to go into Phase 3.
07:15Phase 3 was Mnemonic Induced
Lucid Dreaming or MILD.
07:18And I would stick to this phase
07:19for the longest of all my phases.
07:21This would be a 10 day phase
as opposed to a five day phase.
07:24So yeah, it's day 15 now
07:26of my lucid dreaming challenge, I guess.
07:28So for the next five days, I'm
gonna try this MILD technique
07:31because I've seen this kind of works
07:32for a good amount of people.
07:33And also it's in this book as one of,
07:36kind of the best things that
works for inducing dreaming.
07:39And all MILD is, is that when you wake up
07:40after having a dream, you
wanna write it down right away.
07:44But the interesting addition
to MILD is that when
07:46you fall back asleep,
you're telling yourself,
07:48okay, I will remember I'm
dreaming when I fall asleep.
07:50I will remember I'm
dreaming when I fall asleep.
07:52And then, you also picture yourself
07:54in the previous dream becoming lucid.
07:56So for example, in a previous dream,
07:58if you're riding a bike up a hill,
07:59you should picture yourself
08:01riding a bike but becoming lucid.
08:03You should picture yourself
realizing, wait a second.
08:06This is a lucid dream and
then you become lucid.
08:08And the idea is hopefully,
as you fall asleep
08:11you'll have that same kind of dream.
08:12But this time you'll be ready for it.
08:14Your mind will be ready for it.
08:15And you'll be like, wait a second.
08:16This is a dream and bam lucidity.
08:19However, even though this was
one of the best strategies
08:21and this strategy I
committed the longest to
08:24it seems I was like hitting a wall.
08:26No luck unfortunately last night.
08:28I did wake up. I did write down my dreams
08:31but I must have just been
tired last night or something
08:33'cause I wrote down my dreams.
08:35I thought, okay, when
I'm having this dream
08:38and it was a weird dream,
08:38I was like playing tennis
with my brother or something.
08:41I thought okay, next time
I'm gonna be playing tennis
08:43with my brother, I'm gonna
remember I'm dreaming.
08:46Maybe I was just too sleepy
08:47'cause I just fell right back
asleep within two minutes.
08:49Whatever I did, no matter
how hard I committed,
08:52I just couldn't have another lucid dream.
08:58And I was really annoyed because I thought
09:00the curve of having the
dreams was exponential
09:02not linear, not downward.
09:03I thought, okay, I'd have one every month
09:05and then maybe one every week
09:07and then maybe a couple a week.
09:08But I hadn't had any since
that first lucid dream.
09:11And I began to lose
interest in lucid dreams.
09:13One day I didn't even do a reality check.
09:16Another day, I didn't even write
09:17anything down in my dream journal.
09:19And I remember thinking
okay, maybe this was over.
09:20It was a fun experiment.
09:22It was a fun trial, but
nothing's gonna come of this.
09:24I was just beginner's
luck when it happened.
09:26And I reached out to my original friend
09:28and she said, "Wait a second.
09:29No, no, no. You're thinking
about this all wrong.
09:31You just are building up the commitment.
09:33When you start to stop
thinking about lucid dreaming
09:35your mind thinks, okay, lucid
dreaming isn't that important?
09:38And so, your chances of having
one goes way, way down".
09:41She said, she's been doing
lucid dreams for like 20 years.
09:44And if she doesn't keep dream journal,
09:46if she doesn't do reality checks,
09:47she also stops having the lucid dreams.
09:50But when she wants to,
she can have one pretty
09:51much every single night of the
week, which is crazy to me.
09:54And I tried to think
back to my motivation,
09:56why did I get into looser
dreaming in the first place?
09:59What did I wanna do?
10:00And I remember I just had
no time during the day.
10:02I wanted to find a
little bit of extra time.
10:04A little bit of extra time to
not necessarily study or learn
10:07even though you can do that,
but get some extra time
10:09for myself to just do fun, crazy things.
10:12And I realized, it clicked just then
10:14that getting this extra
time was important to me,
10:16getting this extra time was something
10:17I was willing to work for.
10:19And so, I worked for it.
10:20I went back into writing
down all my dreams.
10:22I went back into doing like
30 reality checks a day
10:25and I was doing MILD every single night.
10:27But still by the end of phase three
10:30I hadn't had another lucid dream.
10:32But I felt things building.
10:33I was writing pages in my dream journal.
10:36And I was starting to feel
like, okay, I'm close.
10:38I just feel like I'm close.
10:39No lucid dreams again.
10:41I'm still trying to hunt down
10:42that nice lucid dream I had the other day.
10:44But I'm starting to
remember a lot of dreams.
10:46Last night was the most
I remember dreams ever.
10:49I remembered five dreams, I
think, which is like crazy.
10:53I know I used to think
like I would go to sleep
10:55and have no dreams, but I
remembered five dreams last night.
10:58It took me like 10 minutes
10:59to write them all down on my phone.
11:02But yeah, I feel another one coming
11:03and then I'm gonna start
introducing something new.
11:09For my final form, Charizard, I mean, no.
11:13I mean my final form was Wake Back To Bed
11:16and the WILD technique which is,
11:18the Wake Induced Lucid
Dreaming technique, you know.
11:20And these were said on the internet
11:21to be advanced techniques.
11:23But you know, I've been doing
this for a couple days now,
11:24a couple 10, 15 days even.
11:26I think I can do it.
11:27No luck again last night.
11:28Recording lots of dreams,
heavy dreams but no luck.
11:32My theme in my dreams is definitely,
11:34it's like playing video games
11:35or watching a movie a lot of times.
11:37I'll control myself.
11:38Or in one dream I was going
on a race up a mountain,
11:41but I was controlling
the shoes on the race
11:45with like a video game controller.
11:49So what are WBTB and WILD?
11:51Well, WBTB, is Wake Back To Bed.
11:54So, you just wake up four and a half
11:55to five hours after you fall asleep,
11:57stay awake for a little bit to
waken your prefrontal cortex,
12:00which is the part of your brain
12:01that has logical thinking, right.
12:03Because when you're in a dream,
12:04the problem is weird things might happen,
12:06but your logical thinking is asleep.
12:08So, you don't realize
these things are weird
12:09and you don't have a lucid dream.
12:11But if you wake up for five, 10, 15, 20,
12:13sometimes people even need
to wake up for 15 minutes,
12:16maybe your prefrontal cortex will be awake
12:18that you'll realize,
wait, things are weird.
12:21Now, you also use this
in combination with WILD
12:23which is the Wake Induced Lucid Dream,
12:24and many people Redditors
and Steven LaBerge
12:27said that this isn't
for the faint of heart.
12:29They said falling asleep
consciously was really difficult
12:32and really difficult for a couple reasons.
12:34The first reason is,
it's really hard to kind
12:35of be awake enough that you're conscious
12:37when you're falling asleep,
12:38but also to actually fall asleep.
12:40The other reason it's hard is because
12:42when you fall asleep consciously,
12:43scary things start to happen.
12:45You start to see flashes
of light, hear loud bangs.
12:48Your body starts to do weird jerks.
12:49And especially if you've never had
12:51this experience before,
it's gonna scare you.
12:52And you'll probably just wake yourself up.
12:54But you know, I was like, I can do this.
12:56I'm on the Phase 4 of this
magical lucid dreaming journey.
13:00And I started with the Wake
Back To Bed and the WILD method.
13:02The first night I stayed up way too long.
13:05I stayed up for 30
minutes. Went on my phone.
13:06Don't go on your phone, by the way.
13:08And I was reading and
like, playing video game.
13:11And then I just couldn't go back to sleep.
13:12And I just stayed up the whole night
13:13and showed up to the
hospital an absolute mess.
13:15The second night I
stayed up for only like,
13:17two or three minutes and
I just fell back asleep.
13:18But I wasn't awake enough,
so things were bad.
13:21But then the third time I did this
13:23I stayed awake for like 12.5, 15 minutes.
13:25And I was reading Steven LaBarge's book.
13:27And then, I went back to
sleep and it happened.
13:30I had another lucid dream.
13:32After my 10, like 15 day
drought, it happened again.
13:35I had a lucid dream.
13:37I had another one. It worked.
13:38I woke up, I stayed
awake for like 15 minutes
13:41and then I went back to bed.
13:42But when I was trying to go back to bed,
13:44I set the intention in my head,
13:45listen, I'm gonna have a looser dream.
13:47And when I have the looser
dream, I'm gonna fly.
13:50I'm gonna have a loose dream.
13:51when I have the lucid dream I'm gonna fly.
13:52And then I fell asleep.
13:54And I was on this beach.
13:55And I noticed the beach was kind of dirty
13:58and there were people around.
13:59And I wondered kind of why was I there?
14:01And then I realized, wait a second.
14:02This is probably a dream.
14:03I looked down at my hands,
my hands looked normal.
14:05And then I did the reality
check where I hold my nose
14:08and tried to breathe through my nose
14:09And I could breathe through my nose.
14:11And I was like, this is a dream.
14:12But I kept on changing the
beach 'cause I was like,
14:15I want the beach to be nicer where I'm at.
14:16So I was like, make there
be less rocks on the beach.
14:18Make this sand be a nice
kind of, golden brown color.
14:22And then it just kept on working,
14:24lucid dream number two,
lucid dream number three,
14:25lucid dream number four,
this method was golden.
14:28So, it's lucid dream number,
14:30I don't know what number it is.
14:31It could be three or four at this point.
14:32But it's the most like intense lucid dream
14:34I've actually ever had.
14:36Okay, so I was walking
on the streets of London
14:38or something like that.
14:39And I don't know why but I just
kind of knew I was dreaming.
14:41So I looked down at my fingers,
my fingers looked fine.
14:44And then, I hold my nose
14:45and I realized I could
breathe through my nose.
14:47And I was like, this is a lucid dream.
14:48So, I remember reading in LaBerge's book
14:50like what people were doing sometimes is,
14:52they'll just focus on a certain piece item
14:54or like focus on something
14:55and that'll kind of
keep them in the dream.
14:58And I started to look at the tree.
15:00But I noticed kinda the
leaves were really blurry.
15:02So, I was like, that's weird.
15:04So, I wanted to just go into a house.
15:06But I opened the door and
it was just an empty house
15:08that was like there was no one there.
15:10So I was like, that was weird.
15:11It was dark. It was almost scary.
15:13I walked upstairs and I
still was kind of half lucid.
15:16And I was seeing some a different person
15:18who was kind of like myself.
15:19And then, I was like kind of lucid.
15:20And I was like, oh this is like,
15:21some kind of subconscious weird thing.
15:23So, I asked it and I was
like, "What am I doing?"
15:25And the person's like,
'You're doing too much.
15:28You need to slow down
and like be healthy".
15:30And then he keeps eating the salad.
15:31And then I was like,
"What does that mean?"
15:33And then I like, I just woke
up 'cause I was so excited.
15:35I just remember thinking this is so cool.
15:37This lucid dreaming thing is awesome.
15:39I was ready to do something big.
15:42It was time to dream big, okay.
15:44I've only been waiting this
entire video to say that
15:47but really it was time to dream big.
15:49In my final week, I wanted
to do something crazy.
15:52I wanted to do something
a little bit more intense
15:54than just flying around and
having crazy lightsaber about.
15:57But night 27, nothing happened.
15:59Night 28, nothing happened.
Night 29, nothing happened.
16:04And I was thinking, what kind
of 30 day experiment is this?
16:06Nothing is happening.
16:08I'm just gonna end the experiment
16:09without having another lucid dream
16:11in my final phase too, in my final form.
16:14Okay., it's three o'clock in the morning.
16:18I'm gonna try and stay up
for like 10 to 30 minutes
16:21and then go back to bed.
16:24We'll see what happens.
16:27Apologies about the hair.
16:28I have no idea what's going on.
16:31Night 28, I plan to do cool stuff
16:34but I just slept and had normal dreams.
16:38Sometimes this happens. Two nights left.
16:41Let's hope I get something
cool in the last two nights.
16:44I'm really, really hoping
16:45I'm gonna do a ton of
reality checks today.
16:46I have a bunch of reminders on my phone
16:48'cause I want my last lucid
dreaming night, night 30,
16:50to be actually a big one.
16:52I really wanna like do something big
16:56for my last lucid dream.
16:58I don't know if I'll
even have a lucid dream.
17:00But hopefully I'll have one
17:01if I set the intention
in my head a lot today,
17:04do a lot of reality checks
17:05and then before bed, definitely
do MILD, WILD do all of it.
17:10So yeah, the experiment's
coming to a close,
17:14but I'm gonna keep doing
lucid dreams after this.
17:21But luckily it was almost like
17:22there was some part of
me that was listening
17:24to my internal want, my dreams
to have this awesome dream.
17:28And I had an amazing dream on
my final night on night 30.
17:33I remember I was like on a playground
17:35but the playground was in an ocean.
17:36And then in the ocean,
17:38there are also three other playgrounds
17:40kind of connected together
17:41like that never ending
staircase optical illusion.
17:44And I was jumping from
playground to playground.
17:47And then I kind of realized I was dreaming
17:49but I didn't start to fly.
17:50I kind of just like shot up.
17:52It was almost like I was,
17:53I jumped on a springboard
17:54and I shot up to space.
17:56And I really wanted to go to
the moon and jump on the moon,
18:00but nothing like that happened.
18:02So, I just kept on flying through space.
18:04But I kept on going really, really fast,
18:06really, really fast.
18:07And I started to see planets.
18:09But I kept flying and the
planets kept blurring.
18:11And I started to experience weird shapes
18:13and noises and emotions.
18:15The dream intensified my emotions
18:16to the point where I was nearly in tears.
18:18I remember I was definitely
crying in the dream.
18:20And when I woke up, I
think I wasn't crying
18:22but there were tears in my eyes.
18:29It's okay to cry. People cry.
18:31It's great, but I'm not crying.
18:32I'm not a crier. I don't cry.
18:34I, you know, I work out.
18:39I forgive you, all right.
18:40And I realized how amazing
this thing really is.
18:43I realized there is so
much more to explore
18:46in this world in my own head.
18:47Imagine the crazy things I could do
18:49if I kept doing this for another week,
18:51another month, another year.
18:53And honestly my life
will never be the same.
18:58My journey into the world of
lucid dreaming has just begun.
19:02But if you made it to
the end of this video
19:05thank you so much for watching
19:07and I will see you on the next one.
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